Apartheid

English

Noun

Apartheid (countable and uncountable; plural Apartheids)

1. The policy of racial separation used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
2. By extension, any similar policy of racial separation.

Adjectives for Apartheid

economic; educational; social; modern; benign; digital.

Verbs for Apartheid

abolish-; institute-; introduce-; support-; implement-; demolish-; boycott-; defeat-;

Thesaurus

alien; anti-Semitism; apartness; black power; black supremacy; chauvinism; class consciousness; class distinction; class hatred; class prejudice; class war; color bar; color line; detachment; discrimination; division; ethnocentrism; exclusiveness; fascism; foreigner; insularity; insulation; isolation; isolationism; know-nothingism; male chauvinist; minority prejudice; narrowness; out-group; outcast; outsider; parochialism; persona non grata; privacy; privatism; privatization; quarantine; race hatred; race prejudice; race snobbery; racial discrimination; racial segregation; racialism; racism; recess; reclusion; red-baiting; retirement; retreat; rustication; seclusion; secrecy; segregation; separateness; separation; separatism; sequestration; sex discrimination; sexism; snobbishness; social barrier; social discrimination; splendid isolation; stranger; superpatriotism; tightness; ultranationalism; white power; white supremacy; withdrawal; xenophobia

Pronunciation

• (RP, strictly) IPA: /əˈpɑːthaɪt/, /əˈpɑːtheɪt/, X-SAMPA: /@"pA:thaIt/, /@"pA:theIt/
• (US, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhīt, IPA: /əˈpɑrthaɪt/, X-SAMPA: /@"pArthaIt/

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• (US, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhāt, IPA: /əˈpɑrtheɪt/, X-SAMPA: /@"pArtheIt/

• Audio (US)

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• Note: the h is very often not pronounced because of the difficulty of following /t/ by /h/; it is not pronounced as the digraph th (/ð/, /θ/).